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Orthoptists
Diagnose and treat visual system disorders such as binocular vision and eye movement impairments.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Develop nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Interpret clinical or diagnostic test results.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Refer patients to ophthalmic surgeons or other physicians.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Develop or use special test and communication techniques to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of children or patients with disabilities.Mostly human for now
- 10Provide training related to clinical methods or orthoptics to students, resident physicians, or other health professionals.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss2%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
53%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 43% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 38% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Develop or use special test and communication techniques to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of children or patients with disabilities.
- Provide training related to clinical methods or orthoptics to students, resident physicians, or other health professionals.